Shanghai: The Olympic Games provide an opportunity to a country to showcase itself to the world. In China’s case, it is perhaps all the more important, as it wants to present to the international community its development in the post-Mao era.
Shanghai’s magnetic Maglav Train can be seen as representing the speed of the economic development in China. At 431 km/hr, it is the fastest-running public transport system in the world. the working of the fastest running public transport system in the world.
On the surface and in the sky, in all its major cities, the Chinese workforce chisels the 2008 Olympic dream as now, final touches are being given to the Olympic facilities.
Gigantic structures have come up across Beijing's skyline, including the one called the Water Cube, where all the aquatic events would be held.
The Nest is where the Opening Ceremony of the games would be held, when Beijing will be host to 1 million sports-lovers and 20,000 journalists from across the world in the month of August.
Despite protests across the world, somewhere down the line, the Chinese leadership seems assured that there would not be any boycott like the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The Olympics, now, are as much about sports as they are about commerce.
With top US and European brands sponsoring the games, no one would want to hurt economic interests in world's largest market.
"Out of the commercial interest, no government will boycott the games," said Wen Hei Daily’s Senior Editor, Lee Baokang.
It’s clear that in the changed economics of the world, politics takes the back seat.
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